Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Little said is soon amended.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.